Scott Ritter: "I knew I was right all along ..."

[gauguin57]

(interviewed in Lancaster, PA paper (he went to college here))

http://www.lancasteronline.com/pages/news/local/4/9085

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"Scott Ritter was widely ridiculed when he argued, six months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, that the case for war was “speculative,” that there was no proof Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

... Ritter is one of a very select few who were right. But he’s not tooting his own horn saying “I told you so.”

“I’d be a liar if I said I didn’t feel that,” Ritter said in an interview with the New Era this week. “I knew I was right all along. I wasn’t guessing. But this is not a high school debate where you score points and get to thrust your hand in the air and shout ‘Aha!’” Ritter said.

“Our nation went to war. I tried to stop this war. How can I feel any sense of satisfaction?” Ritter said. ..."

[serryjw]

1. Sure ...he said it in 1998.....more video's

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec98/ritter_8-31.html

[no name no slogan]

4. But he was on Richard Butler's payroll back then...

...along with several other members of UNSCOM who actually turned out to be spies-- which was a violation of the UN resolution.

Turns out Tariq Aziz WAS right after all. :shrug:

[serryjw]

5. Even if true..I must be missing something.......

Why did Scott Ritter say there were no weapons in 1998?

[Shopaholic]

2. And PA just happens to be a swing state!!!!

I hope a lot of fence sitters see this interview and that it gives them a whole hell of a lot to think about!

[gauguin57]

3. Pass this story along, because it's in a local (Lancaster) newspaper

Hopefully the AP will pick it up and send it all over da place!!!

[oasis]

6. kick for Scott.

[JohnnyCougar]

7. Crap

The link's not working for me. I wanna send that story to my dad, because he was born in Lancaster County. He is a * supporter, but maybe if he reads something from his hometown folks, it will burst through his barrier to truth.

[Roland99]

8. Wow...the media was slamming him!

LANCASTER COUNTY, PA - Scott Ritter was widely ridiculed when he argued, six months before the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, that the case for war was “speculative,” that there was no proof Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.

The 1984 Franklin & Marshall grad, a former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, was quickly labeled a “traitor,” a misguided “apologist for and defender of Saddam Hussein.”

“People out there are accusing you of drinking Saddam Hussein’s Kool-Aid,” CNN’s Paula Zahn told Ritter, on-air, in September 2002.

MSNBC host Curtis Sliwa suggested Ritter “turn in his passport for an Iraqi one.”

Few are laughing at him now.

[oasis]

9. kick